Curriculum Vitae Sonya Troller-Renfree Human Development and Quantitative Methodology 3304 Benjamin Building College Park, MD, 20742 str@umd.edu Academic Background Ph.D. Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, Expected 2017. Advisor: Nathan A. Fox Dissertation: The development of cognitive control during childhood: A neurocognitive perspective. B.A. With Honors in Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 2010. Advisor: Seth D. Pollak Thesis: Untangling the Effects of Biological Father Absence on Adolescent Development 2010-2013 Post-baccalaureate Research Assistant, Children s Hospital Boston. Advisor: Charles A. Nelson Awards, Honors and Recognition Research Fellowships, Prizes and Awards National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP) 2013-pres National Science Foundation Trainee (NSF Grant 1439258, PI: Megan Gunnar) 2015 International Society for Developmental Psychobiology Travel Award 2015 Society for Research in Child Development Student Travel Award 2015 International Society for Developmental Psychobiology Travel Award 2015 Society for Research in Child Development Student Travel Award 2013 National Institute of Mental Health Interdisciplinary Behavioral Science Center Travel Grant 2013 NIMH Center on Early Experience Stress and Neurobehavioral Development SEED Grant 2012 Early Experience, Stress and Neurobehavioral Development Center Trainee 2012-2014 NICHD Social Development Trainee 2012-2014 Earl D. Johnson Scholarship for Outstanding Achievement in Academics 2010 University of Wisconsin Hilldale Undergraduate Research Fellowship 2009 College of Letters and Science Senior Honors Thesis Research Grant 2009 Florence Waste Pulver Scholarship for Academic Achievement 2008 Research, Scholarly and Creative Activities Chapters in books Troller-Renfree, S. & Fox, N.A. (in press). Sensitive Periods of Development: Implications for Risk and Resilience. In J. Luby (Ed.), Handbook of Preschool Mental Health (pp. 1-25). New York, NY: The Guilford Press. Articles in Refereed Journals
Montoya, L., Westerlund, A., Troller-Renfree, S., Righi, G., & Nelson, N.A. (under review). The Effect of heterogeneous race exposure during infancy. Troller-Renfree, S., Nelson, C. A., Zeanah, C. H., & Fox, N.A. (2016). Deficits in error monitoring are associated with externalizing but not internalizing symptoms amongst children with a history of institutionalization. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 57, 1145 1153. doi:10.1111/jcpp.12604 Troller-Renfree, S. et al. (2016). The beneficial effects of a positive attention bias amongst children with a history of psychosocial deprivation. Biological Psychology. doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2016.04.008. Nozadi, S., Troller-Renfree, S., White, L.K., Frenkel, T., Degnan, K.A., Pine, D.S., Bar-Hiem, Y., & Fox, N.A. (2016). The moderating role of attention biases to threat on the link between behavioral inhibition and anxiety in children. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology. Sylvester, C.M., Barch, D.M., Harms, M.P., Belden, A.C., Oakberg, T.J., Gold, A.L., White, L.K., Benson, B.E., Troller-Renfree, S., Degnan, K.A., Henderson, H.A., Luby, J.L., Fox, N.A., & Pine, D.S. (2016). Early childhood behavioral inhibition predicts cortical thickness in adulthood. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 55(2), 122-129. Troller-Renfree, S., McDermott, J.M., Nelson, C.A., Zeanah, C.H., & Fox, N.A. (2015). The effects of early foster care intervention on attention biases in previously institutionalized children in Romania. Developmental Science, 18(5), 713-22. PMID: 25439678. PMID; PMCID: PMC4447605. Troller-Renfree, S., Barker, T.V., Pine, D.S., & Fox, N.A. (2015). Cognitive functioning of socially anxious adults: Insights from the NIH Toolbox Cognitive Battery. Frontiers in psychology, 6, 764. Barker, T.V., Troller-Renfree, S., & Fox, N.A. (2015). Individual differences in social anxiety differentially affect the salience of errors in social contexts. Cognitive, affective, and behavioral neuroscience, 1-13. Righi, G., Westerlund, A., Congdon, E., Troller-Renfree, S., & Nelson, C.A. (2014). Infants experience-dependent processing of male and female faces: Insights from eye tracking and event-related potentials. Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 8, 144-152. McDermott, J.E., Troller-Renfree, S., Vanderwert, R., Nelson, C.A., Zeanah, C.H., and Fox, N.A. (2013). Psychosocial deprivation, executive functions and the emergence of socio-emotional behavior problems. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7(167), 1-11. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00167
Conferences, Workshops, and Talks Refereed Presentations Troller-Renfree, S., Stevens, B.K., Buzzell, G.A., Degnan, K.A., Henderson, H.A., & Fox, N.A. (under review). The moderating role of cognitive control on the link between behavioral inhibition and the development of anxiety. Symposium under review for the Society for Research on Child Development, Austin, TX. Buzzell, G.A., Barker, T.V., Troller-Renfree, S., Henderson, H.A., Pine, D.S., & Fox, N.A. (under review). The performance monitoring system moderates the relation between behavioral inhibition and social anxiety during early adolescence. Symposium under review for the Society for Research on Child Development, Austin, TX. Troller-Renfree, S., Nelson, C.A., Zeanah, C.H., & Fox, N.A. (accepted). Error monitoring moderates the relation between externalizing but not internalizing behaviors amongst children with a history of institutionalization: Implications for risk and resilience. Nanosymposium to be conducted at Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA Michalska, K., Walker, O., Troller-Renfree, S., & Fox, N.A. (2015). Responding to social exclusion: Influences of behavioral inhibition. Symposium conducted at the Society for Research on Child Development, Philadelphia, PA. Troller-Renfree, S., Degnan, K., Frenkel, T., & Fox, N.A. (2015, March). The Moderating Role of Attention Biases to Threat on the link between Behavioral Inhibition and Anxiety in Children. In V. LoBue and K. Perez-Edgar (Chairs), Is There Room for Development in Attentional Biases for Threat in Children and Adolescents? Symposium at Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia, PA. Roos, L. E., Bryck, R., Troller-Renfree, S., Fisher., P.A. (2015). Internalizing Symptoms and Cognitive Skill Interventions for At-Risk Children; Differential Relationships based on Foster Care and Low-Socioeconomic Status. Symposium conducted at the Society for Research on Child Development, Philadelphia, PA. Michalska, K., Walker, O., Troller-Renfree, S., & Fox, N.A. (2014). Responding to social exclusion: Influences of behavioral inhibition. Paper Symposium conducted at Anxiety and Depression Association of America, Chicago, IL. Barker, T.V., Troller-Renfree, S., & Fox, N.A. (2014). Individual differences in social anxiety differentially affect the salience of errors in social contexts. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the Society of Psychophysiological Research, Atlanta, GA. Refereed Posters
Croce, R., DeVries, B., Fox, N., & Troller-Renfree, S. (2016). Gender differences in BART performance. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Baltimore, MD. Troller-Renfree, S., McLaughlin, K., Sheridan, M., Nelson, C.A., Zeanah, C.H., & Fox, N.A. (2015), The beneficial effects of a positive attention bias amongst children with a history of psychosocial deprivation: Reducing anxiety and stress reactivity. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, San Sebaastian, Spain. Troller-Renfree, S., Ruszkay, N.,Bowman, L., & Fox, N.A. (2014). Attention-shift training in preschool children: Impacts on executive function, theory of mind, and fluid intelligence. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the International Society of Infant Studies, Berlin, Germany. Troller-Renfree, S., McDermott, J.M., Vanderwert, R., Fox, N.A., Nelson, C.A., & Zeanah, C.H. (2013). Early psychosocial adversity, selective attention and the development of socioemotional behavior problems in childhood. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Determinants of Executive Function & Dysfunction, Boulder, CO. Troller-Renfree, S., Jabes, A., Thomas, K.M., Nelson, C.A. (2013). Neurocognitive assessment of executive function in nine-year-old children born to diabetic mothers. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, WA. Troller-Renfree, S., Righi, G., Westerlund, A., & Nelson, C.A. (2013). Developmental changes in infant race perception over the first year of life: Insights from eye tracking. Poster presented at biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, WA. Jabes, A., Troller-Renfree, S., Thomas, K.M., & Nelson, C.A. (2012). Consequences of diabetic pregnancy on recognition memory development in 10-year-old children: a behavioral and neuroanatomical study. Poster presented at the 3rd UK Paediatric Neuropsychology Symposium, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, England. Congdon, E.L., Westerlund, A., Righi, G., Troller-Renfree, S., & Nelson, C.A. (2012). Infants experience-dependent processing of male and female faces: Insights from eye-tracking and event-related potentials. Poster presented at biennial meeting of the International Conference on Infant Studies, Minneapolis, MN. Martin McDermott, J. N., Troller-Renfree, S., Heim, C., & Pollak, S.D. (2010). The role of feedback processing in relation to children s information discovery and utilization. Poster presented at annual meeting of the Society of Psychophysiological Research, Portland, OR. Grants
Current: National Science Foundation: Graduate Research Fellowship. DGE1322106, Fellow Troller-Renfree, 05/13-03/18. Completed: National Institute of Mental Health: Early Experience, Stress and Neurobehavioral Development Center. SEED Grant Troller-Renfree, Co-I Roos, 01/13-01/14. Teaching, Mentoring and Advising. Teaching Experience Teaching Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2009 Introduction to Psychology Invited Guest Lecture, University of Maryland 2013 Lifespan Development: Early Adversity and Attention Biases Invited Guest Lecture, George Mason University 2014 Research Methods: Experimental Design Invited Guest Lecture, University of Maryland 2014 Research Methods: Inferential Statistics Invited Guest Lecture, University of Maryland 2016 Lifespan Development: Early Adversity and Development Advising: Undergraduate: Nicole Ruszkay Riya Dhamankar Jill DeJames Alana Ebert-Zavos Brady Stevens Marissa Koven Sarah DiGregorio Service and Outreach Committees, Professional & Campus Service 2014-15 Chair Search Committee Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology Post-hoc Reviewer Emotion, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Biological Psychology